List of countries by suicide rate

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The following is a List of suicide rates by country according to data from the World Health Organization in which a country's rank is determined by its total rate of suicides. Male and female suicide rates are out of total male population and total female population, respectively (e.g. total male population divided by total number of male suicides). The total rate of suicides is based on the total number of suicides divided by the total population rather than merely the average of the male and female suicide rates, because the gender ratio in many countries is not 1:1. Year refers to the most recent year that data was available for a particular country.

This list should be used with caution. Little data is available documenting suicide rates in Africa, and the Middle East. Even in countries where cause-of-death data is collected systematically, differing societal attitudes to suicide may have a major impact on the recorded figures. (For example, in Christian countries, an automobile hitting a tree in broad daylight with perfect road conditions might be recorded as an accidental death out of deference for the suffering of the bereaved.)

**Suicides per 100,000 people per year:**^[1]^[2]
Rank	Country	Year	Males	Females	Total
1.	Lithuania	2003	74.3	13.9	42.1
2.	Russia	2002	69.3	11.9	38.7
3.	Belarus	2003	63.3	10.3	35.1
4.	Kazakhstan	2002	50.2	8.8	28.8
5.	Slovenia	2003	45.0	12.0	28.1
6.	Hungary	2003	44.9	12.0	27.7
7.	Estonia	2002	47.7	9.8	27.3
8.	Ukraine	2002	46.7	8.4	26.1
9.	Latvia	2003	45.0	9.7	26.0
10.	Japan	2002	35.2	12.8	23.8
11.	Sri Lanka	1996	NA	NA	21.6
12.	Belgium	1997	31.2	11.4	21.1
13.	Finland	2003	31.9	9.8	20.6
14.	Croatia	2003	31.4	8.4	19.5
15.	Switzerland	2001	26.5	10.6	18.4
16.	Cuba	1996	24.5	12.0	18.3
17.	Austria	2003	27.1	9.3	17.9
18.	Republic of Korea (South Korea)	2002	24.7	11.2	17.9
19.	France	2001	26.6	9.1	17.6
20.	Republic of Moldova	2003	30.6	4.8	17.2
21.	Czech Republic	2003	27.5	6.8	16.9
22.	Poland	2002	26.6	5.0	15.5
23.	Hong Kong SAR, China	2002	20.7	10.2	15.3
24.	Romania	2002	23.9	4.7	14.1
25.	Bulgaria	2003	21.0	7.3	14
26.	China (selected areas)	1999	13.0	14.8	13.9
27.	Denmark	2000	20.2	7.2	13.6
28.	Germany	2001	20.4	7.0	13.5
29.	Sweden	2001	18.9	8.1	13.4
30.	Slovakia	2002	23.6	3.6	13.3
31.	Seychelles	1998	NA	NA	13.2
32.	Australia	2001	20.1	5.3	12.7
33.	Ireland	2001	21.4	4.1	12.7
34.	Iceland	2001	19.6	5.6	12.6
35.	Canada	2001	18.7	5.2	11.9
36.	Mauritius	2000	18.8	5.2	11.9
37.	New Zealand	2000	19.8	4.2	11.9
38.	Suriname	1992	16.6	7.2	11.9
39.	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1991	20.3	3.3	11.8
40.	Portugal	2002	18.9	4.9	11.7
41.	Trinidad and Tobago	1994	17.4	5	11.6
42.	Luxembourg	2003	18.5	3.5	10.9
43.	Norway	2002	16.1	5.8	10.9
44.	India	1998	12.2	9.1	10.7
45.	United States	2002	17.6	4.1	11.0
46.	Guyana	1994	14.6	6.5	10.5
47.	Uruguay	1990	16.6	4.2	10.3
48.	Kyrgyzstan	2003	16.1	3.2	9.6
49.	Singapore	2002	11.4	7.6	9.5
50.	Netherlands	2003	12.7	5.9	9.2
51.	Puerto Rico	1992	16.1	1.9	8.7
52.	Turkmenistan	1998	13.8	3.5	8.6
53.	Spain	2002	12.6	3.9	8.2
54.	El Salvador	1993	10.4	5.5	7.9
55.	Zimbabwe	1990	10.6	5.2	7.9
56.	Saint Lucia	1988	9.3	5.8	7.5
57.	Republic of Macedonia	2000	10.3	4.5	7.4
58.	Italy	2001	11.1	3.3	7.1
59.	United Kingdom	2002	10.8	3.1	6.9
60.	Barbados	1995	9.5	3.7	6.5
61.	Belize	1995	12.1	0.9	6.5
62.	Argentina	1996	9.9	3.0	6.4
63.	Israel	2000	9.9	2.7	6.3
64.	Uzbekistan	2002	9.3	3.1	6.2
65.	Costa Rica	1995	9.7	2.1	5.9
66.	Chile	1994	10.2	1.4	5.7
67.	Venezuela	1994	8.3	1.9	5.1
68.	Malta	2003	8.6	1.5	5.0
69.	Ecuador	1995	6.4	3.2	4.8
70.	Brazil	1995	6.6	1.8	4.1
71.	Albania	2003	4.7	3.3	4.0
72.	Thailand	1994	5.6	2.4	4
73.	Panama	1987	5.6	1.9	3.8
74.	Colombia	1994	5.5	1.5	3.5
75.	Nicaragua	1994	4.7	2.2	3.4
76.	Bahrain	1988	4.9	0.5	3.1
77.	Mexico	1995	5.4	1.0	3.1
78.	Greece	2002	4.7	1.2	2.9
79.	Tajikistan	2001	2.9	2.3	2.6
80.	Paraguay	1994	3.4	1.2	2.3
81.	Georgia	2001	3.4	1.1	2.2
82.	Philippines	1993	2.5	1.7	2.1
83.	Kuwait	2002	2.5	1.4	2.0
84.	Armenia	2003	3.2	0.5	1.8
85.	Azerbaijan	2002	1.8	0.5	1.1
86.	Bahamas	1995	2.2	0	1.1
87.	São Tomé and Príncipe	1987	0	1.8	0.9
88.	Guatemala	1984	0.9	0.1	0.5
89.	Peru	1989	0.6	0.4	0.5
90.	Jamaica	1985	0.5	0.2	0.3
91.	Iran	1991	0.3	0.1	0.2
92.	Syrian Arab Republic	1985	0.2	0.0	0.1
93.	Antigua and Barbuda	1995	0	0	0
94.	Dominican Republic	1994	0	0	0
95.	Egypt	1987	0.1	0	0
96.	Honduras	1978	0	0	0
97.	Jordan	1979	0	0	0
98.	St. Kitts and Nevis	1995	0	0	0
99.	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	1996	0	0	0

[edit] Notes

^ Table of WHO suicide rates by gender as of December 2005.
^ WHO country reports and charts for suicide rates retrieved June 6, 2006.

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